New York, Sept. 17 -- New Delhi: The man behind the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) who stood by his boss Lalu Prasad Yadav through thick and thin, only to recently quit the RJD in a surprise move - Raghuvansh Prasad Singh died in Delhi's AIIMS battling post-COVID symptoms.

Singh's demise comes close on the heels of his unceremonious and some would argue, unexpected exit from RJD, a party he served for the better part of his political life. In his handwritten resignation to Lalu Prasad, he said, "I kept standing behind you for 32 years after the demise of Karpuri Thakur, but not any longer."

He was believed to be angry over talks about former MP Rama Singh's entry into the RJD. In what can be seen as a lon...